Walin

I don’t know; we’ve probably never gotten a WOB on this. I’m guessing not, since thought processes happen pretty slowly in the terms of vibrations. You could probably push/pull from inside a bendalloy bubble. My primary evidence for the slow Allomantic switching ability is this: How fast can you shake your hand? Maybe multiply that by ten because of the required neuron length between the hand and the brain, but even then you’ll never get the super high frequencies you need for sound. But as a Mistborn, you could totally do it from a bendalloy bubble (seeing as Brandon wrote in-bubble time as being incredibly fast), and maybe the Lord Ruler could use Steel Feruchemy to speed up just himself to do that.

Great review! I’m really wondering now what Kaladin is gonna do about the Voidbringers. The synopsis (back of book version) doesn’t really spoil so much as raise a bunch of questions.

I just want to know if the waffle irons are powered by electricity or Brass feruchemy. Wait a second, just got a good topic title, or at least something to append to the Investiture Tech thread for Scadrial. f-Brass powered heat equipment!! No longer must you buy heavy propane tanks or connect the stove to the grid! Just buy a charged medallion and stick it in the designated slot of your heating appliance. Waffles have never been so portable—now, you have two slots—one brass, one bendalloy, making this waffle iron a must for every worldhopping journey. (Paid for by Silverlight Ingestiture Department)

Last year when I discovered WoK and WoR, I read during English class. The teacher never took my book since she made a point of taking phones when they were out, and books didn’t count. This year the teacher is different, but I hope I can still read at the blistering pace of...three weeks.

Maybe. Hopefully we’ll find out in Oathbringer or via a WOB, but I don’t think that its design is what determines the order. Actually maybe it is, we never got a WOB on that. Maybe make a discussion topic on whether Shardblade designs are related to their orders via Essence similarities.

Amaram killed Kaladin’s men because he knew they’d talk, and the army would get suspicious. So Amaram’s army can’t be mass-conspirators in this (Axiom 1). Amaram said he’d have his own men say that Kaladin’s group helped the Shardbearer, and that Kaladin was neutral (Axiom 2). Dalinar’s evidence was the word of seventeen men. Thus, they professed to be eyewitnesses to the event—no info gained by Amaram’s announcement to the army would be considered trustworthy (Axiom 3). Much of the army was either running away from the Shardbearer (Helaran), or already dead, when he came for Amaram. His very own honor guard was fleeing before the attack was thwarted (Axiom 4). Anyone nearby the guard probably would have kept running with them (the guard). Any turn back would have been while running, and thus unreliable due to shaky-camera POV being not super informative. They would only be able to tell that the Shardbearer was no longer standing, because “Hey the shiny glory dropped from view” (Axiom 5). After seeing the Shardbearer being downed, the incredulity of it could make them stop running and try for a better look. Seeing as Helaran was already dead and Kaladin was on the ground near him and making no movement, any knowledge of the fight (who hit what, and when) would have to be gained by coming back to the site of the Shardbearer’s body (Axiom 6). Only the honor guard came back to the site to hear the story during Kaladin’s POV (Axiom 7). We don’t know about Kaladin’s men during that time, but it’s pretty safe to say nobody questioned them either before everyone got to the barracks (Axiom 8). Thus, Amaram’s crew were the only ones who were firsthand (read: not by rumor or story telling, or else Dalinar wouldn’t have counted it as evidence) witnesses to Kaladin killing Helaran—Conclusion 1; see Amaram’s honor guard is almost certainly loyal enough to him to be culpable in any deception he makes, especially considering some of them were in the room when Kaladin’s men were killed (Axiom 11). Dang, I just realized there’s a hole in my reasoning—the army would know that the Shards were gained at a different time. So, that weakens Axiom 1’s effectiveness. However, I wanted to post some deductive reasoning that stated Dalinar didn’t ask random people in the army. I also wanted to use the word “Axiom” a lot. I’ll post this anyways because it would be a waste of text to not; I won’t elaborate further since my evidence is ineffective now, though.

The second time the Everstorm and a highstorm crash together, it is revealed that he Voidbringers’ outnumbering Knights Radiant in Investiture usage during such a collision, and the increase of Surgebinders and decrease of Voidbringers due to war evens it out. The storms still violently clash, but just in fashion sense because red lightning does not go with the Stormfather’s face. Wheels turned out to have been invented after the first fabrials, and Navani is just discovering ellipses. Shardblades are actually an extrapolation of an undiscovered conic.

I really love this thread, and find it annoying to have to search it up and scroll through a lot of stuff to read it again, so I don’t mind the necromancy that much.

I was thinking that more oxygen and less gravity would contribute to a longer life since they don’t have to do as much work (kilogram-meters; what’s the mass-length measure on Roshar?) and thus cells don’t do as much stuff, thus not needing to divide as much, thus maintaining longer telomere length. Also, ambient Investiture that usually decreases illness (per a WOB about the Purelake plague) probably heals a tiny little too, decreasing need for cellular division to heal abrasions. Anyone who lives on Roshar will live longer than on other planets, but I think the Rosharan spiritweb contributes about 50% of the longer living. So Scadrians would have to burn pewter a few minutes once every day (while also living on Roshar) to get the same life extension. Or maybe I’m going about this all wrong, and native Rosharans have pDNA with longer telomeres than the average Cosmere humanoid.

Thanks for the answers; I should probably read through Elantris again before posting in this thread anymore.

We know about the plates that could be pressed to activate Aons stratched into them by Elantrians. However, is it known whether they have to be pressed by Elantrians? Sorry if this is necro-ing an old, answered idea. Also, I’m pretty sure that you have to be Elantrian to activate an Aonic plate.

Browser is the application you use to use (browse, surf, ride, read, etc.) the Internet. The most common ones are Chrome, Safari, and sometimes Mozilla Firefox. Internet Explorer is the infamously bad one, even though it’s better (read: still not good though) than it used to be. Google, as a company, makes the search engine “Google,” the browser “(Google) Chrome,” the application download software “Google Play,” and a few hardware like Android phones (I think? Is Android owned by Google?). Mostly software. Sorry if the excess explanation comes off as condescending, I’m just trying to cover all my bases here.

I think that fabrials’ use of Stormlight don’t make coldness (otherwise heating fabrials wouldn’t work and Soulcasters would cause instant frostbite), though Surgebinding does. This is supported by that one theory thread that involved a heckton of calculations—that Stormlight is an intravenous gas. Before remembering that thread, I thought for a second that Stormlight decreasing temperature when used is an allusion by Brandon to the fact that tropical storms take (both ‘need’ and ‘remove/consume’) heat to operate, and thus Stormlight usage results in a reduction of heat. Any thoughts on why it cools stuff down? (Not because Stormlight is awesome and thus cool; other puns are acceptable though)

Maybe he got his bones broken by the same guy that broke Dalinar’s nose (was it broken more than once? I forget). This might be the most compulsive minor-bone-breaker in the Cosmere, and actually turns out to be a Splinter of Odium. Sorry to almost derail the thread, I’ll post something discussitory. I think the interludes’ character names will get some more repeats, like Rysn. Try to pay attention to them. Edit: ignore that last paragraph, I thought this thread was Stormlight Reread and was just responding to the posts I saw. Didn’t realize they were the entirety of the thread and not a new page.

Iron-Iron could level cities. As a non-compounding decision, either A-Pewter, F-Gold (super warrior as Nightstlker said); A-Pewter, F-Bendalloy (super survivalist because warmth/strength and stored food and water); A-Bronze/Zinc, F-Duralumin (super manipulator because emotional Allomancy and Connection); A-Tin, F-Cadmium (super detective because surveillance ability plus holding your breath indefinitely), and maybe a few others.

If he was part of the Ghostbloods, and (Words of Radiance spoilers) I’d say this is pretty probable.

That proposed Heralds’ oath to the Almighty has really good evidence. They likely knew they would suffer a lot for being Heralds. However, the Radiants probably got most of their oaths from Ishar, not Nohadon. He knew they all had to be better, but Ishar was the one who structured the orders. Only a Herald could make the leveling up process be so specific with the oaths; Ishar may have taken from Nohadon’s writings, but I’m thinking the order and oaths came from the Herald.

I thought this thread was about Feruchemal Cadmium (Feruchemical?). I'll make a new thread about that... Also, I think that Cadmium as an Allomantic metal showed a lot of good usage in all three Wax and Wayne books. However, it is even more useful than bendalloy as a non-combat metal. Cadmium could be used for stasis, super effective imprisonment (with a consenting Misting guard to set up the bubble), detainment (as in Alloy of Law), and a couple others. This reminds me of how I thought A-steel/F-iron was one of the worst Coinshot Twinborn combos there was, before I opened Alloy of Law. Cadmium sounds really bad, but it turns out to be even better than bendalloy, or sometimes even Nicrosil. (Not the base metals though, those are pretty OP)

Wow I didn’t see the post dates until you necro’ed this thread. Man, I’m surprised there wasn’t any more discussion on this for three whole years... I think that it would really enrage the fans if Shallan figuring out Kaladin killed Helaran ended Part 1, since making it be that dramatic would really be shippy. At least, if it was the last sentence. If it was in the second to last paragraph and Shallan realized her family didn’t matter as much as the Desolation, and it’s just a part of that, then I would be okay with it.

Also, Stormlight protects against falling damage. Kaladin fell with a lot of speed, and the amount of time he spent in contact with the Plate was short enough to count as a landing. If he just fell onto the Plate and Lashed himself a bunch, enough to be crushed, all the Stormlight could do is heal. Thus, Kaladin’s legs were probably cracked or broken much less than warranted by his impact with the Plate. This doesn’t contribute much to the discussion of Stormlight healing, though.

When you look at a book with 200 pages and think “why is that called a novel and not a novella? It’s so small!” Looking at marbles makes you take a sharp breath When you get hurt badly enough to be delirious, and you say “where are the painspren?”

That’s a really good theory, especially since Stormlight makes plants grow better too--Cultivation helps with Honor’s spren, and also with its Investiture. I can’t really elaborate on that though, so if you were hoping for discussion, I’m afraid I won’t contribute to it.

It has a super hard shell, if we’re assuming that it’s the same thing as the stuff that makes up chrysalises. It takes hours (I think) to break through it with hammers, so I think it could maybe conceivably brace itself against a plateau wall in a branch of the flow (so it doesn’t just get swept to the side, instead getting smashed against a wall). It could use its shell to kind of divide the stream, though it definitely couldn’t breathe. Hum. Okay new theory: it finds leeward areas such that when they eventually fill up, it will be with slower water that it can float up on and then brace against the walls of the chasms to avoid floating into faster streams. Huh, this isn’t a good theory either... I’ll take two pretty bad theories over one pretty good one.

Funnily enough, I think I would have played exactly the same as I did right now if I was an eliminator. I’ve given up on making it out of C2 alive, so I’ll share my “strategy” for finding the elims that I mentioned on D1. It was to bluff my role, bluff as an eliminator (maybe), and watch closely the people who voted and pulled back, like Striker. So, basically, just regular analysis plus recklessness.

So, everybody, the reason I did this: None of my defenses would work, but I wanted to do something interesting before my character dies. Bluffing as an elim is definitely more polite than posting “a” over and over to clog up the thread. No, wait, it wasn’t to be interesting. I genuinely thought this would cause some running around and theorizing; I haven’t read SE enough to see where this has been done before. See you guys in the Aftermath; also, since I’m an Eavesdropper (like A Joe in the Bush was), would that clear my name? I know you have no reason to believe a roleclaim, but does the elim faction usually not have repeat roles unless necessary?